WEE Hub Newsletter (Vol.1, Issue 04, Jan 2024)

Abstract

At the Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Hub of the African Women Studies Centre (AWSC), now in its fourth year of implementation, we have made substantive progress in the implementation of the program working towards the full realization of women's economic empowerment. During the past years, we have worked with sector partners to enhance WEE through research and policy advocacy in a landscape where statistics show a marginally narrowing gender gap. Available data promises to demystify long-held myths about women’s experiences such as their inability to work with banks to access credit and that women in marriage institutions are not able to make business decisions. Data collected by the AWSC WEE Hub and other WEE actors and partners will shape the direction of WEE through entrepreneurship, a key sector of focus in the Kenyan economy and globally. The Hub is particularly testing the impact of a women-focused business incubation model for replication.